"This is the libel: see, there's Prestongrange's name to the list of witnesses, and I find no word of any Balfour.

But here is not the question.

Who do ye think paid for the printing of this paper ?" "I suppose it would likely be King George," said I.
"But it happens it was me!" he cried.

"Not but it was printed by and for themselves, for the Grants and the Erskines, and yon thief of the black midnight, Symon Fraser.

But could _I_ win to get a copy?
No! I was to go blindfold to my defence; I was to hear the charges for the first time in court alongst the jury." "Is not this against the law ?" I asked.
"I cannot say so much," he replied.